Catching up with friends and family, listening to music, and eating are pretty much my favorite things in life – Here are some snaps from this past Memorial Day where I did all of the above and entertained the day away – Being outdoors was an added bonus!
Overview of a full crowd
FELIX gobbles the high contrast style prize
Autumnal MOSAIC melange
When I got the big yes! after timidly asking my sister in law Judy Coleman if she’d consider dressing her Thanksgiving tables in full French Bull fashion this year I was psyched. This was huge news in my family. Besides the always tasty menu, Judy’s scenic china, with illustrations of the American landscape and turkeys is a tradition that we all love and expect to see. “Mixing things up” can be tricky, but the neo, neo-con style Judy brought to the table was superb. Confident combinations of fine silver, white linens and seasonal floral arrangements with (our formerly) neo-retro radical French Bull dishes and accessories assures us we can break bread with any one. This November confirms CHANGE has come in more ways than one. A big thank you to my brother and sister-in-law Walter and Judy of Detroit, MI.
Rosie, Jordan, Jackie, Ronnie, Ellen, Bonnie, Brett, Kim, Adria, Walter, Danny, Joanne, Sarah, Judy, Howard, Mark
Sara, Jimmy, Ben, Mindy, Izzy
chat n chew
Round platters - dark or light?
Lazy susan puts a new spin on Judy's muffins
Motor CIty streetscape by Albert Winkler
Detroit, Michigan is hometown to my husband and partner Ron Meckler. We visit at least once a year to celebrate Thanksgiving, July 4th, or Passover with his family. A hardcore lover of his town, with a designers eye, and a musician’s soul to the core, Ronnie has turned me on to a grand American city so abundant in cultural riches, I shake my head in disbelief at how down and out this town has been for decades. The architectural beauty of its abandoned mansions once home to fat cat auto maker execs, still line blocks of once coveted neighborhoods. Art Deco specimens like The Fox Theatre, and the Landmarked Fisher Building stay open to businesses, but their empty halls cry for consistent visitors. Besides being undoubtedly one of the most musically influential and innovative cities over the past 50 years, and best-known for developing Motown, soul, funk, early punk rock and techno music, detroit boasts being the publishing home of the irreverent music magazine Creem that gave massive exposure to musicians years before the mainstream press. All hailing from Detroit – the MC5, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Suzi Quatro, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, the Four Tops, and the White Stripes are some of my favorite artists, and indisputable icons of their genre.
Ronnie, the only boy and youngest of four siblings, left Detroit early on but his three sisters have stayed in Michigan and long ago moved out of the city to the surrounding suburbs. Their kids and their kids’ kids make his current family count 54. Everyone is really close and pretty tight. My teenage children love, and socialize with their cousins, and second cousins. Ronnie cherishes being with his nephews and nieces, and I truly enjoy spending time with my sisters-in- law. This year we’ll be in Detroit for Thanksgiving dinner hosted by Ronnie’s youngest sister Judy. She’s a fantastic cook, and remarkably into the sprit of the holiday for which she begins weeks in advance to prepare. Her famous Thanksgiving table settings feature thematic fine china decorated with landscape scenes of early America and wild turkeys, and colorful seasonal creative centerpieces. This Thanksgiving Judy will set her tables to seat thirty-seven people, word is she’s planning to shake things up a bit! I’ll definitely take lots of pictures which i’ll post when I get back home.
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